January 1987

January 1987

January 1987 Volume 12 Number 1   Features The 87 Most Interesting People in Town The all-new class of 1987. You won’t find them all in the headlines, but you will find them wherever the action is. By The Editors   The Morning After Tony Earl’s chief policy advisor tackles the toughest question on the morning after Wisconsin’s gubernatorial campaign: Why didn’t we win? By Hal Herman   Great Expectations So who is this tall, gangly guy named Jack Sikma anyway, and why are the Bucks willing to spend $6 million on him? By Vic Feuerherd   Making Tracks Ski…

January 1987

Volume 12

Number 1

 

Features

The 87 Most Interesting People in Town
The all-new class of 1987.
You won’t find them all in the headlines, but you will find them wherever the action is.

By The Editors

 

The Morning After

Tony Earl’s chief policy advisor tackles the toughest question on the morning after Wisconsin’s gubernatorial campaign: Why didn’t we win?

By Hal Herman

 

Great Expectations

So who is this tall, gangly guy named Jack Sikma anyway, and why are the Bucks willing to spend $6 million on him?

By Vic Feuerherd

 

Making Tracks
Ski fashions that light up the slopes with style.

By Arlenc Wilson

 

The Spy Nobody Believed
In 1985, ex-Milwaukeean Ron Rewald was found guilty of bilking $22 million out of unsuspecting investors. His excuse? He says the CIA made him do it.

By Scott King

 

Departments

Out Front

By Charles J. Sykes

 

Letters

Yips and yahoos.

 

The Insider

New! More stories than ever: the inside scoop on Milwaukee’s Soviet invasion, adults who can’t read, bowling trivia and more.

Edited by Leslie J. Ratay

 

Misc.

Those little extras that make winter so sporting an occasion.

By Victoria Vaccarello

 

Metroscene

Activities for starting the year off right.

Edited by Dawn M. Behr

 

Dining Guide
Looking for a good meal? Check here first.

 

Columns

Film

How Hollywood is regaining some self-respect by plundering American plays.

By Mike Wilmington

 

Business

The low-key guy who struck it rich by selling clothes that aren’t in style.

By Helen Pauly

 

Finance

The tax man Cometh, and here’s all kinds of number-crunching advice.

By Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

 

Restaurants
Downtown revitalization means the return of some classic buildings and some new classy food.

By Willard Romantini

 

Fine Arts
Three little theater companies you might not know about — but

should.

By Bruce Murphy

 

Endgame

1987 will live in infamy as the year it became okay to be . . . just okay.

By Charles J. Sykes

 

On The Cover: Marvin Berkowitz, FT. Roc O’Connor, Denise Wahlberg, Albert Yee, Catherine Heenan and Isabelle Polacheck, photographed by John Nienhuis. Styling by Diane Yokes.